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REAR WINDOW: The Making of a Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age, Jennifer O’Callaghan

The making of Alfred Hitchcok’s Rear Window, widely hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, and its ongoing influence on the American cultural landscape by an entertainment reporter. (Kensington/World Rights/Spring 2025)

THE DANCING WOMAN, Elaine Orr

From the author of A Different Sun and Swimming Between Worlds, and Professor of Literature at NC State University comes a mesmerizing new novel.  Set against the backdrop of Nigeria on the edge of civil war during the 1960s, a young epat woman artist, torn between two men, struggles to find her passion and purpose.  (Blair Publishing/World Rights, Fall 2024)

CRISIS ON MOUNT HOOD, Christopher Van Tilburg MD

A mountain rescue doctor’s gripping memoir of  life-saving rescues on the most-climbed glaciated peak in the world, woven with the 100-year history of America’s oldest mountain rescue team, the Crag Rats, highlighting how climate change, crowds, and technology are fueling a spike in search and rescue incidents, endangering the beauty of the high alpine wilderness.   (Mountaineers Books/World English/Spring 2025)

THE MINIATURIST’S ASSISTANT, Katherine Scott Crawford

Pitched as Surviving Savannah meets The Time Traveler’s Wife, in which an art conservator in historic Charleston discovers a familiar face in a 200-year-old miniature portrait and must reconcile her complicated past with that of the men she loves across two different lifetimes, begging the question: What does it mean to be a spirited, flawed, and fully-realized woman living as many lush, wild, and dangerous lives as she possibly can–in any century? (Regal House Publishing, World Rights, May 2025)

Untitled Memoir, Sara Sherbill

The Glass Castle meets Unorthodox in this searing memoir of growing up in a rabbinical family in which the father, a revered and charismatic leader in the religious community, demands unswerving loyalty even at the price of keeping secrets that will tear apart his family. (World English, Union Square & Co, Fall 2024)

HOW TO ENDURE HARDSHIP: An Ancient Guide to Consolation

Classicist and translator Philip Freeman’s new translation of Boethius’ class fifth century text, The Consolation of Philosophy, showing how philosophy can help us to understand and overcome personal misfortunes and challenges, published as part of the “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers” series. (Princeton University Press/World Rights/Fall 2025).

How to Travel: An Ancient Guide for Modern Tourists, M.D. Usher

A compendium of Greek and Roman texts, newly translated, highlighting what the ancients can teach us about traveling and how to think about the places, people, and practices we encounter along the way to (Princeton University Press’ Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series/World Rights/Fall 2025).

BANISH BEDTIME BATTLES, Ellen Flannery-Schroeder, Ph.D. and Chelsea Tucker, Ph.D.

Chelsea Tucker, Ph.D.
Ellen Flannery-Schroeder, Ph.D.
Licensed psychologists Ellen Flannery-Schroeder, Ph.D., and Chelsea Tucker, Ph.D.’s BANISH BEDTIME BATTLES will be a godsend for parents, detailing a proven, scientifically based, six-week program for getting children to sleep independently while increasing their well-being and sense of self-confidence. (Rowman & Littlefield, world English, spring 2024)

PODCAST GUESTING MADE SIMPLE, Michelle Glogovac

Michelle Glogovac, aka “The Podcast Matchmaker”, is the founder and CEO of the MLG Collective, a full-service PR firm that specializes in podcast pitching. In PODCAST GUESTING MADE SIMPLE, Michelle will share her proven system for pitching, prepping, and performing as a podcast guest along with marketing techniques to leverage appearances for maximum impact! This book is sure to be an invaluable resource for anyone with a message or a mission including business and non-profit leaders, authors and artists, and politicians and activists! (McGraw-Hill, World rights)

THE LIBERALS: How American Learned to Tell the Truth, Beat the Fascists, and Create a Free World, by Joseph Kelly, Ph.D.

By Joseph Kelly, Ph.D., University of Charleston professor and author of MAROONED (Bloomsbury), THE LIBERALS takes readers to the culture wars of the ’20s and ’30s, revealing how a second generation of founders—activists, writers, artists, publishers, professors, jurists, and journalists—defeated the forces of fascism to save American democracy. (Bloomsbury, World rights)
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